Re: gs vs. xpdf

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 17:12:33 (+0200), Ludovic Courtès wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Lout website
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:28:02PM +0100, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> > Lout 3.28 seems to produce PostScript with textures that ghostview can't
> > display, but doesn't choke on: it just shows whitespace instead. The
> > textures print beautifully but ghostscript can't convert PostScript that
> > has these textures into PDF -- even version 8.00 just dies with a stack
> > trace. This is a great pity, but not lout's fault of course.
> 
> Actually GNU GS 7.05 _does_ succeed in converting PS files that
> contain textures into PDF files.  Xpdf is able to display textures
> properly then.

Hmmm, but GNU GS itself cannot display what it creates?  Curious!

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